{"id":222629,"date":"2026-02-03T00:03:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T22:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-visual-health-company-produces-over-400000-ophthalmic-lenses\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T00:03:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T22:03:27","slug":"angola-visual-health-company-produces-over-400000-ophthalmic-lenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-visual-health-company-produces-over-400000-ophthalmic-lenses\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: Visual Health Company Produces Over 400,000 Ophthalmic Lenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Luanda \u2014 Four thousand ophthalmic lenses were transformed and produced by the Oftalmed factory during the first two years of the unit&#8217;s operation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Since its inauguration in Jan 2024, the factory produces and transforms an average of about 600 lenses daily, even reaching almost 900 units during peak production phases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">With an investment exceeding 8 billion kwanzas (USD1=912Kz), the factory is installed in an area of 1,800 square meters and is equipped with the latest techs and equipment used in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602020580.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luanda \u2014 Four thousand ophthalmic lenses were transformed and produced by the Oftalmed factory during the first two years of the unit&#8217;s operation. Since its inauguration in Jan 2024, the factory produces and transforms an average of about 600 lenses daily, even reaching almost 900 units during peak production phases. With an investment exceeding 8 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":222630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[258,256,3941,4263,7156,5731,53552,257,53551,11446,254,15629],"class_list":["post-222629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-company","tag-health","tag-lenses","tag-news","tag-ophthalmic","tag-produces","tag-south-africa-today","tag-visual"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}